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Question
There are nouns in the text (formation, government) which are formed from the corresponding verbs (form, govern) by suffixing – (at)ion or ment. There may be change in the spelling of some verb – noun pairs ; such as rebel, rebellion; constitute, constitution.
Make a list of such pairs of nouns and verbs in the text
| Noun | Verb |
| Rebellion | Rebel |
| Constitution | Constitute |
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Solution
| Noun | Verb |
| Rebellion | Rebel |
| Constitution | Constitute |
| Formation | Form |
| Government | Govern |
| Obligation | Oblige |
| Transformation | Transform |
| Discrimination | Discriminate |
| Deprivation | Deprive |
| Demonstration | Demonstrate |
| Oppression | Oppress |
| Imagination | Imagine |
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| 1. | absence | |||
| 2. | alarm | alarm | alarming | alarmingly |
| 3. | attraction | |||
| 4. | enable | |||
| 5. | admire | |||
| 6. | agree | |||
| 7. | applicable | |||
| 8. | avoidably | |||
| 9. | differ |
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| Noun | Verb | Adjective | Adverb |
Use the following word as a noun as well as a verb and make a meaningful sentence with the set in your notebook.
march
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honour
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I walk to school everyday.
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They gave me a gift everyday.
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tackle, trumpet, directly, execute, aggressive, natural, absence, exactly, achieve, clearly, imagination, precisely, create, important, expert, specific. of, if, and, oh, from, we, but, it.
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honour
Use the same word as a noun and a verb to make a meaningful sentence.
Stitch
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| Noun | Verb | Adjective | Adverb |
| 1. | strong | ||
| 2. passion | |||
| 3. | change | ||
| 4. | organizedly |
